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Bianchi International of Temecula, California is a worldwide producer of leather and nylon goods for the law enforcement industry. Since the 1960s they have produced items from gun holsters to duty belts and everything related in between. Armor Holdings bought Bianchi International in 2004; [1] BAE Systems bought Armor in 2007. [2] [3]
Minnesota experienced a 17-year moratorium on executions between 1868 and 1885 due to the passage of a law limiting the application of the death penalty in the state; the law was passed in 1868 and repealed in 1883. [3] Capital punishment in Minnesota was officially abolished on April 22, 1911. No executions have taken place in Minnesota since ...
John Colianni, 61, American jazz pianist. [714] Josip Čorak, 80, Croatian wrestler, Olympic silver medallist . [715] Agyemang Diawusie, 25, German footballer (Dynamo Dresden, Wehen Wiesbaden, Jahn Regensburg). [716] Dan Dobbek, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins), heart failure. [717]
Bianchi's Rochester ties have prompted some to question whether he was responsible for the so-called "Alphabet Murders" in 1971 and 1973, when three young teenage girls were strangled and sexually ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
A Minnesota man was shot in the neck as he was cleaning up his yard by a 54-year-old neighbor who had warned him not to touch a specific tree on the property amid nearly a year of “racially ...
John Craig Chenoweth (May 4, 1943 – August 10, 1991) was a Minnesota politician, executive director of the Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund, and a victim of an anti-gay hate crime. As a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party , he served in the Minnesota State House (1969–1971) and Senate (1971–1979).
A motive was never established, but Bianchi and his partner were in a lovers' lane when assailed, and police thought the gunman may have had a religion-fuelled desire to rid it of courting couples. (The lane was in Bigges Main, a former coalmining village near Wallsend.) Bianchi died in hospital in Newcastle the day after the attack. [52] [53]